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What’s another 25 years when you’re already serving a life sentence? Fotios “Freddy” Geas — the ex-Mafia enforcer already serving a life sentence — was given an additional 25 years by a judge Friday for bludgeoning notorious New England crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger to death inside a federal prison in 2018. He pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and assault resulting in serious bodily injury for the brutal attack on Bulger. Geas had been behind bars since 2011 for multiple crimes, including the 2003 killing of Genovese crime boss Adolfo “Big Al” Bruno. Prosecutors said Geas repeatedly battered the 89-year-old...

Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11 Joseph Bruno, @fwparker Dean of Students at a Chicago High School caught on camera bragging about providing his students with "dildos and butt plugs": "The kids are just playing with ‘em, looking at ‘em…They're like, ‘How does this butt-plug work?"

We Don't Talk about BRANDON A parody song taken from Dinseys movie Encanto, We Don't Talk About Bruno.

White Double AMONG THE DIVERSE RELIGIOUS FAMILIES, none is held in higher esteem by the Church than the Carthusian; the prescriptions of the corpus juris determine that a person may pass from any other Order into this, without deterioration. And yet it is of all the least given to active works. Is not this a new, and not the least convincing, proof that outward zeal, how praiseworthy soever, is not the only, or the principal thing in God’s sight? The Church, in her fidelity, values all things according to the preferences of her divine Spouse. Now, our Lord esteems...

White Double AMONG the diverse religious families, none is held in higher esteem by the Church than the Carthusian; the prescriptions of the corpus juris determine that a person may pass from any other Order into this, without deterioration. And yet it is of all the least given to active works. Is not this a new, and not the least convincing, proof that outward zeal, how praiseworthy soever, is not the only, or the principla thing in God’s sight? The Church, in her fidelity, values all things according to the preferences of her divine Spouse. Now, our Lord esteems...

The Congregation for Religious' struggle against the Franciscans of the Immaculata is going into a new round. On March 2nd, the legal representatives of the founder and General Superior dismissed by the Vatican, Father Stefano Manelli, has issued a complaint to the state prosecutor of Avellino. He founded the Order in the 1970s, it was recognized by the Holy See in 1990, returned to the original Franciscan Rule and also followed Pope Benedict liturgically. After the Motu proprio Summorum Pontificum he implemented the traditional liturgy internally, while offering the Sacraments in both forms of the Roman Rite for pastoral reasons....

Sic transit gloria mundi. For the Franciscans of the Immaculate, the Institute founded by Father Stefano Maria Manelli, ( externally commissioned on 11th July 2013) the “era of Volpi” , which will certainly be remembered as one of the saddest in the history of this religious order, is over. Father Fidenzio Volpi, assigned by the Congregation for Religious as Apostolic Commissioner to liquidate Father Manelli’s order, is in fact in a Roman clinic, after suffering a cerebral ischemia, followed by a hemiparesis, which has seriously compromised his health, forcing him to renounce, irrevocably, his appointment as Commissioner. In February 2014,...

By the senior religious correspondent of Italian daily La Stampa, the startling news: those responsible for the intervention of the Franciscans of the Immaculate, after silencing their innocent victims inside the Church, now use the Police to intimidate journalists and bloggers -- and their family members ! -- in Italy. It is probably the most serious attempt by an ecclesial authority to make use of the police forces (and police that are members of the military forces) to limit the freedom of the press or public free speech by laymen in Italy in living memory -- the attempt is based...

The working day in the retrial of former state Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno will be shorter — as long as the former political powerhouse is not too talkative outside of court. U.S. District Court Chief Judge Gary Sharpe conditionally ruled on Thursday that the trial, which begins Monday, will start at 10 a.m. and last until 4:30 p.m. each day. He said Bruno, 85, of Brunswick requested the shorter days for medical-related reasons. (...) But Sharpe said his view will change if he sees Bruno outside the courthouse speaking to reporters about the trial. The longtime Republican senator...

I want to thank all of you who have extended condolences to me upon the death of my dear Father. I ask you to indulge me here, as I reveal something of my own life. I believe He should be properly eulogized, and have been burdened to do so. My Father, Bruno Wilbur Randles was born on January 17, 1928, in Hutchinson Kansas, and died on May 13, 2012. He was preceded in death by my mother, Suzanne, who passed away in 1978 at the age of 49. He is survived by his ten children, 23 grandchildren and twenty-five great-grandchildren....

runo Serato says his Italian mother is responsible for his good deeds. It started when she spotted a boy eating potato chips at a Boys & Girls Club of Anaheim donation ceremony. When Caterina found out the chips were all that boy and other children at the club were having for dinner, she told her son to cook for them at his restaurant, the Anaheim White House. "I had to say yes because I had to listen to my mom," said Serato, who lives in Huntington Beach. That night — April 18, 2005 — he fed about 70 kids. "I...

A sports radio talk show host's short-lived Twitter posting calling Giants pitcher Ramon Ramirez an "illegal alien" had the Internet world in an uproar Saturday. Tony Bruno, a die-hard Philadelphia sports fan whose nationally syndicated show is broadcast on KNBR, posted his comment on Twitter after Ramirez hit the Phillies' Shane Victorino with a pitch Friday night, sparking a benches-clearing brawl.

THE former lover of a top Brazilian soccer player was allegedly strangled and fed to dogs. The BBC reported Eliza Samudio, 25, disappeared more than a month ago from a hotel in Rio de Janeiro. Police said she was taken by force and was strangled in the south-eastern city of Belo Horizonte. Samudio's remains have not yet been found, but police say her body was cut up and parts were fed to dogs. The rest of her corpse was allegedly buried under concrete. Samudio was a former girlfriend of footballer Bruno Fernandes das Dores de Souza, 25 - known to...

In 2002, at the end of my fourth term as a New York state senator, I heard that the Senate majority leader, Joseph Bruno, wanted to talk to me. It was the beginning of the decennial state redistricting, and Mr. Bruno showed me a map of his plan for Brooklyn — which had my district cut into pieces and allocated to other senators. “We’ll give you the safest seat in Brooklyn,” he said, along with about $2 million in member items — discretionary money that senators get to dole out to constituents — considerably more than the $130,000 a year...

It’s a good thing someone in Basalt is paying attention. The victim of the Basalt 7-Eleven armed robbery spotted the knife-wielding, illegal alien in a local gin mill and called him in. Amazingly, the Basalt cops couldn’t find the felon, who was living in the trailer park next to the store he had robbed. Makes one wonder if Basalt’s boys in blue could find their butts in the dark with both hands. Twenty-five years ago, two officers did a better job than Ikeda’s dozen donut-dunkers do now. That trailer park is Basalt’s version of East Los Angeles replete with gang...

This is tooo funny: The lawsuit, brought against Cohen, Letterman, NBC Universal, CBS Broadcasting, Worldwide Pants, Gannet Company, and the director of Bruno, Larry Charles Wengrod, claims that Aita is a "peace activist, family man and prominent businessman" who never had any dealing with al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade or "any other terrorist activity or cause."

The conviction of Joseph Bruno, the former state senator who once was one of the most powerful state leaders in the country, is an indictment of the entire New York State Legislature. Mr. Bruno was convicted on two felony...“theft of honest services”... --snip-- The 50 or so lawyers in the Legislature, including the Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, and the Republican Senate leader, Dean Skelos, are not required to reveal their clients. What if those clients have business with the state, which certainly means that their business crosses the desks of these lawmakers? The public is kept in the dark. That...

Michael Totten draws attention to the apparent decision by Hamas to take a brief hiatus from active terror attacks in order to engage themselves in a “culture war,” which includes the production of at least one movie. Now it seems that over in the West Bank, the terrorists have started a culture war of their own. Their prime target: Bruno, aka the Jew and occasional Hebrew-speaker Sacha Baron Cohen. A few days ago, we learned that one of Bruno’s interviewees, a former operative for the Al-Aksa Martyr’s Brigade who spent seven years in an Israeli prison, was suing Baron Cohen...

The British comedian behind Bruno has tightened his security after a Middle Eastern terror group issued a hostile threat against him. The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades is "very upset" over its portrayal in Sacha Baron Cohen's film, in which he plays an Austrian homosexual fashion journalist. The Palestinian-based terrorists said they would "respond in a suitable way", according to a statement published online. In the film, Cohen's flamboyant Bruno character interviews Ayman Abu Aita, who he introduces as the leader of the Martyrs Brigades. Bruno is seen imploring Mr Abu Aita to hold him captive. "I want to be famous,"...

Sacha Baron Cohen has stepped up his security after being threatened by a terrorist organisation that is angered at its portrayal in the film Brüno. The al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, a coalition of Palestinian militias in the West Bank, said it was “very upset” that it featured in the film starring Baron Cohen’s homosexual fashionista alter ego. Baron Cohen’s Austrian character ridicules the terrorist group when he attempts to get himself kidnapped during a meeting with Ayman Abu Aita, who is identified in the film as the leader of the Martyrs’ Brigades. The London-born actor is reportedly taking the threat seriously...